[Vi doesn't comprehend it, at first. what files? Stillwater? it's almost as if it was a lifetime ago.
and then her stomach twists, and she remembers. being beaten and screaming Powder's name. being assumed she's on drugs because of the mentions of her. she'd never corrected them, because none of it was their fucking business.
that cell, that was so devoid of fresh air and light that she felt like she was going insane. being interrogated, laughing at them while they interrogated her, because she was so desperate for them to know that they didn't scare her. they did, but it wasn't stronger than her need to get back to Powder. all the abuse and neglect for seven years...
she only vaguely comes back to the present, but she hasn't noticed that she's stopped holding Caitlyn. that she's walking away from her, and picking up the files. that she's scrambling through the house looking for a lighter--
they've got to go. she doesn't know that her face is pale and her eyes wild in her desperation to get them out of their home. no. no. they can't exist. not here. not where Caitlyn can see them and read them until she drives herself insane too--]
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and then her stomach twists, and she remembers. being beaten and screaming Powder's name. being assumed she's on drugs because of the mentions of her. she'd never corrected them, because none of it was their fucking business.
that cell, that was so devoid of fresh air and light that she felt like she was going insane. being interrogated, laughing at them while they interrogated her, because she was so desperate for them to know that they didn't scare her. they did, but it wasn't stronger than her need to get back to Powder. all the abuse and neglect for seven years...
she only vaguely comes back to the present, but she hasn't noticed that she's stopped holding Caitlyn. that she's walking away from her, and picking up the files. that she's scrambling through the house looking for a lighter--
they've got to go. she doesn't know that her face is pale and her eyes wild in her desperation to get them out of their home. no. no. they can't exist. not here. not where Caitlyn can see them and read them until she drives herself insane too--]